Matt Frieburghaus | Sono-
Statement
Process: Sono- is an aural and visual map: an amalgam of new technologies and old memories. It is a combination of sound and visual data as recorded and recreated from a synesthetic experience. The sound of this occurrence brought forth memories of childhood associations such as video game sounds, cheap synthesizers, and low-resolution graphics. As the aural sensation was the dominant of the senses, the work was created with that in mind. The graphics and sound result in a translation of the data to elicit and aural and visual experience for the viewer independent of a personal endeavor.
Sono- was created with video and sound editing software. The motion graphics are bits of visual data taken from a series of eye scans and MRI's that are animated to sound. The audio channel is a composition of samples recreated to resemble my memory of the MRI. It is presented to create a dialogue about the impact of memory, the senses, and what is relevant from an individual perspective.
Artist
Statement: My digital and printed work maps aural and visual moments. I act as an alert witness to the events around me and collect sound, video, and data and then transform these elements digitally. My work is an artifact of this investigative procedure. Sound is a foundation that unites the range within my work and it emerges as either a component in the final artistic expression or as inspiration at the inception. My gravitation to sound started as a teenager playing guitar in a band, only to emerge later during art school and inform my work. The visual aspect of my work reveals my life-long passion for maps. I want to chart a change of my perception by translating my sensory experiences.